Snowdrop Flower, Plainfield, Vermont “The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.” Gertrude S. Waster I know spring is two months away but with our mild winter it seems like it’s right around the corner… Because we were visiting the East coast, we… Continue reading The Flowers of Early Spring
Month: January 2012
Just a Photo
Farmers Market Bouquet
The Fiddlehead Blog: 10 Rules for Submitting
The Fiddlehead Blog: 10 Rules for Submitting: If you missed the deadline for The Fiddlehead’s 21st Annual Literary Contest , fret not! The Fiddlehead accepts submissions year-round so i…
Carry Your Burden
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. Robert Louis Stevenson I have a lot of work to do this week and I woke up… Continue reading Carry Your Burden
the power of words
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Using Software to Track Submissions: Part 4 — Online Submission Trackers
Using Software to Track Submissions: Part 4 — Online Submission Trackers
How to start a poem
Poets are good listeners. They find moments, experiences and images and write poems from what others might perceive as silence. Often poetry exposes the ugliness and the beauty of our world reminding us what we might have forgotten or what we never would have noticed. Poetry can spark political discussion, protest a wrong, affect change,… Continue reading How to start a poem
Whereof the Gift Is Small by Maxine W. Kumin : Poetry Magazine
Whereof the Gift Is Small by Maxine W. Kumin : Poetry Magazine
The postman’s knock
How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! Emily Dickinson, letter to Mrs. J.S. Cooper, 1880 And none will hear the postman’s knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? W.H. Auden I miss writing and getting letters…although I’m a huge technology geek it… Continue reading The postman’s knock
